Author Archives: Joel Wendt

THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING “ENDER’S GAME” (a meditation on war, enemies, and love) Ender sez, as he considers the arts of war, and how to beat an enemy: “I think it is impossible to truly understand someone, and not love them the way they love themselves, but in that moment … you beat them.” Is “anthroposophy” […]

In my spiritual research, into the social-spiritual history of human Earth existence, I discovered a harsh but recurring pattern. Often we do not have something, and then feel the suffering of absence. We yearn for what is missing, and this yearning is the very power by which social-spiritual life changes and evolves over time. For […]

I will be 79 on December, 23rd, 2019. Pushing eighty. Tired of war zones on the Steiner-net. Ask myself why. The experienced truth, with a small “t”, makes for its own chaos. Love requires sharing, and all we really have to share is ourselves. Winter is here, in New England. Something I wrote many years […]

Dear Steiner fans, One-sidedness always harms. Reality is not one-sided, … it is multi-sided. The reliance on Rudolf Steiner’s words is a classic one-sidedness. There is no way to opening/have a dialogue/debate with a dead man, or his unquestioning acolytes. In the writings of those I have read, who admire Steiner – when the questions […]

https://www.nealstephenson.com/ Some minds are giants. Not all will get to know this savant, yet … I will join the parade of: Read This Man’s Books. For the reader of this essay, think about this description in Wikipedia [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson ]: “Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative […]

I tried to write a comment for the New York Times, and there were mysterious electronic issues. I was writing to this column, … https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/movies/best-films.html Here is what I wrote: We live in a post-literate future. Film seeking to emulate the same arts as novels are excellent at that, especially given the right material. Director’s who […]

less than three minutes … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbC7-dXku4Q as she begins to reveal all the secrets of a natural shamanism, that is the gift to all human beings. There will be more …

A Meditation/Contemplation on The Polarities of Intimacy spiritual (erotic) and physical (sensual) There is probably no better direct experience of the Divine Mystery than learning – through that personal experience – about the reality of Intimacy. Recently a very ancient understanding of existence has become mentioned/used in a television car commercial, where it speaks of […]

The Magic of Individual Political Spirituality In the Light of Rudolf Steiner’s Teachings Regarding the Threefold Social Organism The first key-idea is “threefold”. The story is told that once Steiner began to see threefoldness everywhere, he waited seventeen years before first beginning to publish this material in the book: Riddles of Philosophy. Primal phenomena follows […]

Tiger Saucy tells of some overlooked features of the true story of religions. The wizard Rudolf Steiner spoke wisely when he wrote/and-or said: “the religion of the gods is the human being”. In the way back long ago when before, sometimes remembered in the Fable of the Garden in the Hebrew Bible, there were two […]